Table 3

Age Eggs (days) treated	Treatments
	0.1		0.3		0.5		1.0		2.0
	LE	R*	LE	R*	LE	R*	LE	R*	LE	R*
1	27.5 ± 1.5^a	67	1.0 ± 1.0^a	99	1.5 ± 0.9^a	98	2.5 ± 1.5^a	97	0.0 ± 0.0^a	----
2	36.0 ± 1.8^b	58	3.0 ± 0.5^b	96	1.0 ± 0.5^a	99	0.0 ± 0.0^a	----	0.0 ± 0.0^ac	----
3	54.5 ± 2.2^c	31	9.5 ± 0.9^ab	88	3.7 ± 0.8^a	95	6.5 ± 0.9^ab	92	5.0 ± 0.7^bd	94
4	56.0 ± 2.9^c	28	37.7 ± 4.1^c	51	38.5 ± 3.3^b	50	36.5 ± 1.2^c	53	0.0 ± 0.0^ac	----
5	63.5 ± 3.5^c	15	32 ± 2.1^c	57	30.7 ± 2.8^b	59	20.2 ± 1.1^d	73	0.0 ± 0.0^ac	----
6	56.5 ± 4.0^c	25	35.7 ± 0.8^c	25	27.0 ± 1.4^b	64	26.2 ± 1.6^e	65	7.0 ± 1.3^bd	91
F-values	24.60***		70.31***		67.90***		147.3***		27.69***

LE- Mean ± SE caterpillars hatched.
R*- % reduction over Abbott [27], mortality of caterpillars hatching.
Means in each column followed by the same letter are not significantly different by Tukey’s test (P<0.05); ); *** P< 0.0001.

Table 3: % Mean ± SE in the caterpillars of eggs and respective mortality in Diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) after one or two days of hatching.